History Opportunist Republicans
1 history 1.1 origins 1.2 divisions 1.3 moving right 1.4 final divisions , decline history origins the moderate republicans large , heterogenous group started after french revolution of 1848. however, group lost elections of 1849, finishing minority group in national assembly. after louis-napoléon s coup d état in 1851 , birth of second french empire in 1852, republicans took part in parliamentary opposition (along monarchists), against bonapartist majority. divisions president jules grévy, portrait léon bonnat (1879). after franco-prussian war (1870–1871) , consequential fall of french empire, third french republic born. however, politics divided in 2 groups: right-wing monarchists (orléanists , legitimists) , left-wing republicans (radicals , moderates). if both republicans combined anti-clericalism , social reformism, radicals nationalist , anti-german, refusing treaty of versailles prussia. moderates instead supported treaty, , more pragmatic on international politics. in 1871, aft...